The Tsallis Distribution at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that a thermodynamically consistent Tsallis distribution effectively describes particle transverse momentum distributions at the LHC, unifying parameters across different particle types.

Contribution

It introduces a thermodynamically consistent form of the Tsallis distribution that provides a unified description of various particles with common parameters.

Findings

Consistent temperature T across particle types

Unified q parameter for different particles

Effective modeling of transverse momentum distributions

Abstract

The Tsallis distribution has been used widely in high energy physics to describe the transverse momnetum distributions of particles. In this note we show that the use of a thermodynamically consistent form of this distribution leads to a description of identified particles with the same values of the temperature $T$ and the parameter $q$.